State v. Howard
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Pierce county, Chapman, J., entered October 7, 1902, after a trial and conviction of the crime of manslaughter; also, from orders over ruling motions for a new trial and in arrest of judgment.
1Opinion of the CourtHadley, J.
Appellant was charged with the crime of murder in the first degree. The jury found him guilty of manslaughter, and the court sentenced him to serve a term of twenty years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. He has appealed from the judgment.
*253It is first necessary that we shall inquire into the question of jurisdiction. One of the errors assigned is that the trial court had no jurisdiction to try the cause or to pronounce sentence therein, for the following reasons, towit: That the appellant is an Indian and the deceased was an Indian woman; that the alleged crime was committed within the limits…
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